Top SEO Tips and Hints for 2012

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips and hints you should and should not be doing on your Web pages to make them rank higher in search engines. Search Engine Optimization tips changes and also gets updated day by day. 

Here is a list of SEO tips that can work for 2012:-

- Get links from reputed person’s social media profiles.

- Have complete profile information on Google plus/Google profiles and link it from your webpage.

- Get G+ for your webpage from reputed persons.

- Get natural links from readers by writing quality content.

- Add Facebook like and share buttons to your webpage and promote through social networks.

- Include rich snippet to your web pages and indicate through rich snippet form for validation.

- Write quality content for users and not for search engines.

- Do not get links from paid directories without "no follow" links. Go for paid directories only for traffic and not for  ranking.

- Have monthly press release with right content and links.

- Participate in related forums. Engage posters and get engaged too.

- Do blogging and start valuable commenting on follow link blogs?

- Write keyword rich text in alt attributes. Especially on the images that are on top of the web pages.

- Work on the low positioned search keywords that you see in analytics.

- Include all open WebPages in XML sitemap and inform Google & Bing through webmaster tools.

- Optimize your page title with search keywords only when you have unique content.

- Optimize your WebPages with right unique Meta description that speaks short about the webpage content.

- Add H tags (H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6) towards the page heading and sub headings without keyword stuffing.

- Have text links in header and footer of the WebPages.

- Add a sitemap to a website.

- Make SEO friendly URLs with keyword rich page names.

- Have CSS (Style sheets) in external file.

- Have the home page size (KB) to the minimum.

There is a lot more to search engine optimization, and there are always more details when looking at an individual site. But these tips should help any website significantly improve its rankings.